IceCap Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 The recent SEC Championship game was pretty nice looking. Two distinct yet classic looks. PotD 26/2/12 1/7/15 2020 BASS Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal Regular Season Champion 2021 BASS NFL Pick'em Regular Season Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4_tattoos Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Hotter Than July > Thriller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan33 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 ugh most boring Cup final ever. LA/NJD gets honorable mention for being boring as well.Are you kidding me!? The 2004 Calgary Flames run was one of the most unexpected and exciting sports stories to come along in ages and that's coming from a Canucks fan. The 2004 final was riveting!What was memorable or exciting about it? I'd bet a lot of people couldn't even tell you who the Flames played in the previous three rounds. I'll just guess.The Flames beat the Red Wings in 6 games in the first round.The Flames beat the Stars in 7 games in the second round.The Flames beat the Sharks in 5 games in the Conference Finals.Was I close?Edit: Turns out I had Flames over Sharks right, but not the number of games; the Flames won the series 4-2. Considering how the Sharks always fade, I figure I had a decent chance at saying the Flames beat them in the conference finals, and, well, was right.The Flames won in 7 in the first round vs. the Canucks, then beat the Red Wings in 6 in the second round.What was exciting was the fact that a team that hadn't won playoff series since 1989 came within a game of winning the Stanley Cup. Living in Calgary might have had a lot to do with it as well but like I said I'm a Canucks fan and they knocked off my team. When they beat the Canucks in 7, most people thought it was a fluke or just attributed to the awful play of Dan Cloutier. How a 7 game series between two fierce divisional rivals could be deemed unexciting is beyond my comprehension.When the second round started, popular consensus was that the Flames had a snowballs chance in hell of beating the top seeded Red Wings but that's exactly what happened, and in dramatic OT fashion. Another spectacular series.Then we have the Sharks series in the conference finals and while you're right about the Sharks getting a reputation of fading/choking but this was in 2004 before all of their epic collapses as top contenders and this series was a close to the Stanley Cup as the Sharks have ever gotten. Again the Flames are the underdog against a top seeded powerhouse and manage to overcome the odds and make it to the Stanley Cup final. As i've said, nobody expected this to happen in a million years and the amount of support the Flames got around Canada at the time was unprecedented. Not to mention the excitement of going down to the Red Mile, which unlike Vancouver and Whyte Ave in Edmonton, never erupted into riots of any kind.The Flames should have won the cup that year, Gelinas' phantom goal in game 6 would have changed the entire complexion of the game had it counted and it would have been the perfect story. An underdog team coming out of nowhere to end Canada's cup drought. How you people can dis the 2004 run of the Flames is absolutely beyond me. It was some of the best hockey I've ever seen and there hasn't been a more compelling story to come along since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kw11333 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 ugh most boring Cup final ever. LA/NJD gets honorable mention for being boring as well.Are you kidding me!? The 2004 Calgary Flames run was one of the most unexpected and exciting sports stories to come along in ages and that's coming from a Canucks fan. The 2004 final was riveting!What was memorable or exciting about it? I'd bet a lot of people couldn't even tell you who the Flames played in the previous three rounds. I'll just guess.The Flames beat the Red Wings in 6 games in the first round.The Flames beat the Stars in 7 games in the second round.The Flames beat the Sharks in 5 games in the Conference Finals.Was I close?Edit: Turns out I had Flames over Sharks right, but not the number of games; the Flames won the series 4-2. Considering how the Sharks always fade, I figure I had a decent chance at saying the Flames beat them in the conference finals, and, well, was right.The Flames won in 7 in the first round vs. the Canucks, then beat the Red Wings in 6 in the second round.What was exciting was the fact that a team that hadn't won playoff series since 1989 came within a game of winning the Stanley Cup. Living in Calgary might have had a lot to do with it as well but like I said I'm a Canucks fan and they knocked off my team. When they beat the Canucks in 7, most people thought it was a fluke or just attributed to the awful play of Dan Cloutier. How a 7 game series between two fierce divisional rivals could be deemed unexciting is beyond my comprehension.When the second round started, popular consensus was that the Flames had a snowballs chance in hell of beating the top seeded Red Wings but that's exactly what happened, and in dramatic OT fashion. Another spectacular series.Then we have the Sharks series in the conference finals and while you're right about the Sharks getting a reputation of fading/choking but this was in 2004 before all of their epic collapses as top contenders and this series was a close to the Stanley Cup as the Sharks have ever gotten. Again the Flames are the underdog against a top seeded powerhouse and manage to overcome the odds and make it to the Stanley Cup final. As i've said, nobody expected this to happen in a million years and the amount of support the Flames got around Canada at the time was unprecedented. Not to mention the excitement of going down to the Red Mile, which unlike Vancouver and Whyte Ave in Edmonton, never erupted into riots of any kind.The Flames should have won the cup that year, Gelinas' phantom goal in game 6 would have changed the entire complexion of the game had it counted and it would have been the perfect story. An underdog team coming out of nowhere to end Canada's cup drought. How you people can dis the 2004 run of the Flames is absolutely beyond me. It was some of the best hockey I've ever seen and there hasn't been a more compelling story to come along since.It has nothing to do with the Cup run. The finals were BORING. Clutching and grabbing hockey at its worst. Outside of Calgary and Tampa, no one cared and ratings showed that.Once again, it has nothing to do with the Flames, it was the style of play.Very similar to the LA Kings run. The NHL eased up on their obstruction rules, and the quality of hockey went down the toilet. I will say the style of hockey in this last playoffs was FAR worse than the Flames run on '04. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Island_Style Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I did my non homer pick. Time to do my homer pick. Tonight's game inspired me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kajeet Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 1990 & 2012 NFC Champioship games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MellowTheMyth Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 NY Giants need to get back to those unis, I miss those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roars87 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 2012 AFL Grand Final- Sydney Swans v Hawthorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancealot Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 2012 AFL Grand Final- Sydney Swans v Hawthorn'08 '09 '10 (if ST Kilda wore their regular uniforms) and '11 beg to differ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coast2CoastAM2006 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Spoilers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sport Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 1990 & 2012 NFC Champioship games I wish the 49ers would go back to that massive pants stripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kw11333 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I did my non homer pick. Time to do my homer pick. Tonight's game inspired me.As much as the Lakers white jerseys have grown on me, I still wish they did not wear them in the finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kajeet Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 1990 & 2012 NFC Champioships I wish the 49ers would go back to that massive pants stripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSLVRBCK Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 1997 Sugar Bowl** this post may reflect homer type feelings and your mileage may vary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sport Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 1990 & 2012 NFC Champioships I wish the 49ers would go back to that massive pants stripe.Serious. Striped socks would be nice too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Cesarano Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Two games played at Giants Stadium:1978 Soccer Bowl, New York Cosmos vs. Tampa Bay Rowdies1985 USFL Championship Game, Baltimore Stars vs. Oakland Invaders -- the last game in league history. (I was at this one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stampman Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 1985 USFL Championship Game, Baltimore Stars vs. Oakland Invaders -- the last game in league history. (I was at this one.)Thos Invader unis look like old Blue Bomber ones--not identical, but in the same neighbourhood. Comic Sans walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve your type here." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GO2HELL Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBubba Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Those USA uniforms are atrocious. All I see is big navy blobs skating around. Their attempt at breaking up the monochrome look by wearing white helmets only worsens things. Nobody cares about your humungous-big signature. PotD: 29/1/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Seriously? I remember watching this game as a 9-year old and HATING how much it looked like an intrasquad game... it was probably one of my first forays into uni geekdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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